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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The FDA approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi in combination with Imjudo and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
Seagen’s Adcetris has been given FDA approval for the treatment of children aged two years and above with high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Ipsen will seek a new approval for Onivyde as a treatment for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC) after posting positive Phase III progression survival data.
The FDA greenlit Libtayo plus chemotherapy to treat patients with advanced NSCLC irrespective of EGFR, ALK or ROS1 aberrations. It is the drug’s second approval in this space.
A request for additional data may cause a 3-month delay for potential approval of BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s hemophilia A gene therapy.
An FDA adcomm that met Wednesday to vote on GlaxoSmithKline’s daprodustat for adult patients with anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) produced mixed results.
The FDA has greenlit the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Tecvayli in heavily pretreated adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
The FDA greenlit AstraZeneca’s tremelimumab in combination with its checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi as a treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
The FDA released guidelines Thursday in an attempt to clarify processes for assessing a drug candidate’s efficacy while examining several endpoints, simultaneously.
On Friday, the FDA approved Boostrix, a vaccine administered during the third trimester of pregnancy to prevent pertussis in infants under 2 months of age.